BIOGRAPHY: William Turbett McCULLOCH, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Page 947.
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    WILLIAM TURBETT McCULLOCH, deceased, a prominent citizen of Port
  Royal, was born June 24, 1853, on a farm in Centre township, Perry
  county. He was a son of Samuel and Edith Beale McCulloch. His
  grandfather, Samuel McCulloch, was a native of Scotland, of
  Scotch-Irish extraction, and emigrated to American, settling in
  Juniata county, Pa., where he owned McCulloch Mills. He married Miss
  Turbett, daughter of the man in whose honor Turbett township was
  named. Their children were: John; James; Thomas; Samuel; George;
  Stewart; Nancy; and Jane. Both he and his wife died at McCulloch
  Mills; Samuel McCulloch, the fourth son, was born at McCulloch Mills,
  Juniata, county, Pa., and farmed in Tuscarora township, Juniata
  county, for the greater part of his life, moving three years before
  his death to Perry county, where he died, in 1853. He married Edith,
  daughter of David Beale, a farmer of English descent, for whose
  family Beale township was named. Their children were: Samuel, of
  Michigan; David, of Port Royal; and William Turbett, also of Port
  Royal. Samuel McCulloch was a consistent member of the Presbyterian
  church, and was a strong Democrat.
    William T. McCulloch received his education in the Airy View
  Academy, of Port Royal, conducted by Professor Wilson, and afterward
  he took a complete course in the Iron City Business College, of
  Pittsburg, from which he was graduated with honor. He then embarked
  in an extensive coal and grain business in Port Royal.
    In 1878 he opened a general merchandise establishment and was
  engaged in this business in 1891. He took a deep interest in national
  affairs and was active in political matters. He was postmaster of Port
  Royal from 1889 to 1892. He was especially noted for his taste and
  good judgment in horses, keeping some of the finest stock to be found
  anywhere in the State. He was an active man of affairs, and when he
  passed away his loss was keenly benefited by his enterprise. In
  addition to his extensive farming enterprises in Turbett township, he
  was a prominent stockholder and director in the Wilkes-Barre and
  Wyoming Street Railroad Traction Company.
    Mr. McCulloch was married at Port Royal, in 1876, to Lucretia J.
  McManigal, born in Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, daughter of John
  and Jennie (Rudy) McManigal, who lived in Port Royal at that time.
  They have three children: J. Harry, a student in the Dental College
  of Philadelphia, having been educated at the Airy View Academy of
  Port Royal and the high school of Lancaster, Pa; W. Ross, attending
  school in Port Royal; and David H. Mr. McCulloch was a Democrat. He
  died in the city of Lancaster, Pa., in November, 1894. There was not
  one among the thousands that knew William T. McCulloch that did not
  sincerely mourn when, in the midst of the success and prosperity
  produced by his thrift and enterprise, he was taken away, in the very
  prime of life.